Sophie Olúwọlé's Major Contributions to African Philosophy

Hypatia ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 35 (2) ◽  
pp. 231-242
Author(s):  
Gail Presbey
Keyword(s):  
Women's Rights ◽  
Oral Traditions ◽  
Women’S Rights ◽  
African Philosophy ◽  
African Culture ◽  
Similarities And Differences ◽  
Culture And Development ◽  
The University ◽  
Philosophical Questions ◽  
Reasoning And Argument

AbstractThis article provides an overview of the contributions to philosophy of Nigerian philosopher Sophie Bọ´sẹ`dé Olúwọlé (1935–2018). The first woman to earn a philosophy PhD in Nigeria, Olúwọlé headed the Department of Philosophy at the University of Lagos before retiring to found and run the Centre for African Culture and Development. She devoted her career to studying Yoruba philosophy, translating the ancient Yoruba Ifá canon, which embodies the teachings of Orunmila, a philosopher revered as an Óríṣá in the Ifá pantheon. Seeing his works as examples of secular reasoning and argument, she compared Orunmila's and Socrates' philosophies and methods and explored similarities and differences between African and European philosophies. A champion of African oral traditions, Olúwọlé argued that songs, proverbs, liturgies, and stories are important sources of African responses to perennial philosophical questions as well as to contemporary issues, including feminism. She argued that the complementarity that ran throughout Yoruba philosophy guaranteed women's rights and status, and preserved an important role for women, youths, and foreigners in politics.

scholarly journals Public Debates on Women's Issues in Postcolonial Kenya: Selections From Viva

SourceLab ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 3 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mia Guzina ◽  
Dylan Tomlins
Keyword(s):  
Peer Review ◽  
Women's Rights ◽  
Women’S Rights ◽  
Women's Issues ◽  
University Of Illinois ◽  
Public Debates ◽  
History Of ◽  
Kenyan Women ◽  
The University

Vol 3. No. 1 (2022) With contributions by Emma Rose Ryan and Ainhoa Leoz Asiáin. This issue of SourceLab introduces readers to the history of Viva: The Magazine For Kenyan Women, a Postcolonial Kenyan publication that discusses women's rights and issues.  This publication is part of the digital documentary edition series SourceLab, based at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Our Editorial Board conducts rigorous peer-review of every edition.

Suppressed in Taiwan

Worldview ◽  
1981 ◽  
Vol 24 (2) ◽  
pp. 11-12
Author(s):  
Jan Knippers Black
Keyword(s):  
Human Rights ◽  
Women's Rights ◽  
Women’S Rights ◽  
University Of Illinois ◽  
Her Family ◽  
The University ◽  
Legislative Assembly

Lu Hsui-lien, thirty six, holds advanced law degrees from the University of Illinois and Harvard. She not only practiced law but was also, until recently, a writer and editor, a dedicated campaigner for human rights in general and women's rights in particular, and a candidate for the Yuan,'Taiwan's national legislative assembly. Lu now spends her days in a cramped and musty cell, her spirit broken by sixty days of grueling interro gation during which not even her family knew of her whereabouts. Threatened with the murder of family and friends as well as her own execution, she ultimately signed a prefabricated confession of sedition.The threat to murder members of her family was not one that Lu could afford to dismiss lightly. One of her co-defendants, Lin Yi hsuing, thirty nine, a provincial assemblyman who had studied law at Berkeley, had lost his mother and his seven-year-old twin daughters, all three stabbed to death by a nameless nighttime intruder while his interrogation was under way. When Lin continued uncooperative, his interrogators reminded him that he had still another daughter and a wife.

Protests and Pushback: Women's Rights, Student Activism, and Institutional Response in the Deep South

2020 ◽  
Vol 60 (4) ◽  
pp. 546-580
Author(s):  
Timothy Reese Cain ◽  
Rachael Dier
Keyword(s):  
Women's Rights ◽  
Student Behavior ◽  
Residence Halls ◽  
Student Activism ◽  
Women’S Rights ◽  
Deep South ◽  
University Of Georgia ◽  
Patriarchal Power ◽  
The University ◽  
External Stimuli

Pivoting around two sit-ins at the University of Georgia, this article examines student activism in the late 1960s and early 1970s in the US South. The first sit-in, at the conclusion of the spring 1968 March for Coed Equality, was part of the effort to overcome parietal rules that significantly restricted women's rights but left men relatively untouched. The second occurred in 1972 when the university responded to salacious allegations of immorality in women's residence halls by replacing progressive residential education programming with the policing of student behavior. This article centers student efforts for women's rights, demonstrates how students and administrators shifted tactics in reaction to external stimuli, and explores the repercussions of challenging the entrenched patriarchal power structure. In so doing, it joins the growing literature complicating understandings of student activism in the era by focusing attention away from the most famous and extreme cases.

Contextualizing The Woman’s Bible

2012 ◽  
Vol 41 (4) ◽  
pp. 564-577 ◽  
Author(s):  
Christiana de Groot
Keyword(s):  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
Women's Rights ◽  
Reading Strategies ◽  
Historical Context ◽  
Women’S Rights ◽  
Women In The Bible ◽  
The Bible ◽  
Similarities And Differences ◽  
Nuanced Understanding

Reading Elizabeth Cady Stanton’s The Woman’s Bible in the context of other nineteenth-century women interpreters of Scripture and in the context of her development as a thinker and activist for abolition as well as women’s rights creates a more nuanced understanding of her work. Stanton’s two-volume commentary, published in 1895 and 1898, stands in a tradition of women reflecting on women in the Bible that began eighty years earlier. Her contributions are read in dialogue with other women interpreters, noting both similarities and differences. In addition, her writings in The Woman’s Bible are contrasted with an essay on the Decalogue which she wrote in 1860 to advocate for abolition. Here she writes as a reformer, and reads the Bible from a liberationist viewpoint. Stanton’s differing reading strategies are explored in their particular historical context so that developments in her own thinking are clarified.

John Stuart Mill Translated by Siegmund Freud

1999 ◽  
Vol 1 (2) ◽  
pp. 195-205 ◽  
Author(s):  
Michael Molnar
Keyword(s):  
Women's Rights ◽  
John Stuart Mill ◽  
Women’S Rights

Freud's translation of J.S. Mill involved an encounter with the traditions of British empirical philosophy and associationist psychology, both of which go back to Locke and Hume. The translation of Mill's essay on Plato also brought Freud into contact with the philosophical controversy between the advocates of intuition and faith and the advocates of perception and reason. A comparison of source and translated texts demonstrates Freud's faithfulness to his author. A few significant deviations may be connected with Freud's ambiguous attitude to women's rights, as advocated in the essay The Enfranchisement of Women. Stylistically Freud had nothing to learn from Mill. His model in English was Macaulay, whom he was also reading at this period.

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